Improvement in billiard-tables



PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE sMITH, 0E DETROIT, MIGHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD-TABLES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent N o. 118,288, dated August 22, 1871.

To all whom fit may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE SMITH, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a nenT and useful Improvement in Billiard Rubber Cushions; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this speeication, in which- Figure l is a top view; and Fig. 3, a section.

A A B B is the improved rubber cushion, instead of a continuons rubber strip. The cuts in the rubber from the top can be either Wedgeshaped, rectangular, circular, or whatever form the inventor may choose to apply. 0, old pocketbilliard-table; D, transformed pockettable into a carrom-table; E, corner of a carrom-table newly made; F, whalebone or hoop-skirt spring, to dis'- tribute the elasticity of the cushion and to pre- Fig. 2, a side view;

as shown and described, and having the points or projections connected at the edge by a Whalebone strip, hoopskirt spring, or other similar device', in the manner set forth.

GEORGE SMITH.

Witnesses:

D. JUNG, EDUARD EGGARD. 

